for turning weak noose into opportunity and for seeking amid great adversity to create a more perfect union barack obama is time's 2012 person of the year. howard kurtz, you know, of course, writes about media, and is the host for cnn's "reliable sources." he writes, wow, little did we know he was super man. i know time has to justify its choice, but really? obama himself is more modest in saying 2012 proves 2008 was not an anomaly. i'm sure you heard this today, michael, already. how do you respond to that criticism? >> i think rick was not calling him superman. i think rick was restating a little more poetically what i says in prose, not calling him superman. the anomaly part is at the core of what we're talking about here. there say real question coming out of 2008 about whether obama was sort of a flash in the pan, a one-time thing that came because of the economic collapse, because of the collapse of the bush administration, because of the desire of the country to have a first african-american president. would he establish in 2012 is that was not the case. those people are still there.